Kye ✧

my darling protagonist who is so cosmically fucked and down horribly bad

it’s about growing up, leaving home, building a life elsewhere, and realizing that return doesn’t restore anything—it only reveals what’s been shifted. the buildings are still there, your old haunts are still there, the people still recognizable, the past still intact in its own way, but something in the way you meet it has changed. you have changed, and in that change, no longer fit in the same way.

what the album keeps circling is not any one moment, but an accumulation: missed conversations that never fully reopen, relationships that continue but subtly drift, versions of yourself that still surface in memory but no longer really exist in the present tense. a yawning gap that forms not in rupture, but in time.

and layered underneath that is something sharper: the way separation isn’t just geographical or relational, but expressive. the voice itself changes. what you want to say doesn’t come out the same anymore—filtered through distance and everything that has happened in between. life lived apart. time that has left everything slightly out of sync with itself.

and so even the attempt to reach becomes something else: not return, but translation. not closure, but articulation across a space that no longer guarantees being heard properly—at all like before.

time doesn’t heal all. success doesn’t overwrite where you came from. leaving doesn’t undo what you still carry. it just changes what you’re able to access, and what only exists now as something you can look at but not step back into.

what emerges is separation as lived condition: the strange experience of loving what you no longer fully belong to, of still recognizing who you were without being able to become that version of yourself again—a version that once fit here, without question.

(explodes !!)

somehow ?? i have accumulated 1k followers on this account ??? hi guys!! hiiii omg. waving at you all of you. you’re so cool and i am very thankful to the art and oc enjoyers :DDDD

in order to celebrate this momentous achievement (/silly) i am doing an ART RAFFLE yayyyyy :333

WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN???

well if you

like & reblog this post

are following my account

have your dms open (so i can reach out to you if you win!)

are really cool and awesome (all of you actually. you get this one for free)

you will be entered in a raffle to receive a customized drawing done by yours truly :333. the raffle will be open until June 1 at which point i will select two winners, one of whom will receive a full-body, rendered drawing, and the other who will receive a rendered half-body (examples of each below)!!

if you don’t win but would still really like some art (or simply cannot wait), consider picking up a commission from me instead!! dms and asks always open for questions about these :)